This morning, the weather having changed and the sun come out, we learned the direction that we must take.

On the way we fell in with a party of some twenty Welshmen, who pursued us hotly.

We outran all but five.

As their shouts would have brought large numbers upon us, we stopped and slew them; and though search was hot for us, we succeeded in making our way through, without adventure, until we came out from the forest, close by." "Truly it was an adventure of great peril," the earl said, "for the Welsh are swarming round us; though we see nought of them, when we are once in the saddle.

Assuredly you would never have got through, even as far as Llanidloes, if you had followed the road on horseback; for the last party that came along brought word that the Welsh had felled trees across it, in many places, and had broken down the bridges.
"It was a gallant exploit, sir.